Department of Economics

Professor and Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise

Office

B451 Amos Hall

620 S. Lumpkin St.

Athens, GA, 30602

Phone Numbers

Work706-542-3569

Email Address

Worklast@uga.edu

Documents

Vita

Sites

Personal Website

Education

PhD, Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986

BS, Finance, Louisiana State University, 1980

Prior Professional Positions

LSU, Economics, Assistant Professor, 1986 to 1990

Awards

Kamerschen-Hampton Outstanding Research Award, Terry College Department of Economics, 2010

Kamerschen-Hampton Outstanding Research Award, Terry College Department of Economics, 2000

Swift Undergraduate Teaching Award, Terry College Department of Economics, 1995

Areas of Expertise

Monetary Economics
Time Series Econometrics
Macroeconomics

Research Interests

Monetary Economics
Time Series Econometrics
Macroeconomics

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Chadi S. Abdallah and William D. Lastrapes. 2012. Home Equity Lending and Retail Spending: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Texas. American Economic Journal -- Macroeconomics, 4(4).
William D. Lastrapes. December 2006. Inflation and the Distribution of Relative Prices: The Role of Productivity and Money Supply Shocks. Journal Of Money, Credit And Banking, (38):2159-98.
William D. Lastrapes and W. Douglas McMillin. Oct. 2004. Cross-Country Variation in the Liquidity Effect: The Role of Finanical Markets. The Economic Journal, (114):890-915.
William D. Lastrapes. Nov. 1998. The Dynamic Effects of Money: Combining Short-run and Long-run Identifying Restrictions Using Bayesian Techniques. Review Of Economics And Statistics, (80):588-00.
William D. Lastrapes and George Selgin. December 1997. The Check Tax: Fiscal Folly and the Great Monetary Contraction. Journal Of Economic History, (57):859-78.
Christopher G. Lamoureux and William D. Lastrapes. 1993.Forecasting Stock Return Variance: Toward an Understanding of Stochastic Implied Volatilities. Review Of Financial Studies, (6):293-326.
William D. Lastrapes. 1992. Sources of Fluctuations in Real and Nominal Exchange Rates. Review Of Economics And Statistics, (74):530-39.
Christopher G. Lamoureux and William D. Lastrapes. April 1990.Persistence-in-Variance, Structural Change and the GARCH Model.Journal Of Business And Economic Statistics, (8):225-34.
Christopher G. Lamoureux and William D. Lastrapes. March 1990.Heteroskedasticity in Stock Return Data: Volume Versus GARCH Effects. Journal Of Finance, (45):221-29.
William D. Lastrapes. February 1989. Exchange Rate Volatility and U.S. Monetary Policy: An ARCH Application. Journal Of Money, Credit And Banking, (21):66-77.

Editorial Appointments

Editor, Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014 - present

Associate Editor, Journal of Economics and Business, 2000 - present